Report: Study warns Fukushima contamination “is becoming more concentrated as it crosses Pacific Ocean, rather than dispersing” — “It’s making a beeline for U.S. West Coast” — “Scientists causing panic in public”

University of Hawaii scientists are seeking to lessen anxieties about the potential health risks from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in the wake of recent international reports warning that dangerous levels of radiation could hit the west coast of the United States next year.

The distribution of the impact strength of Cesium-137 at year 1.5 (a), year 3.5 (b) and year 4 (c). (SOURCE: Han G J, et al. Sci China Earth Sci August (2013) Vol.56 No.8)

Earlier this month, a study published in Science China warned that radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is becoming more concentrated as it crosses the Pacific Ocean, rather than dispersing, and that it is making a beeline for the west coast of the United States. The study, coupled with recent disclosures by Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, that radiation-contaminated water continues to leak into the ocean, has rekindled public concerns about health dangers.

But local scientists at the International Pacific Research Center who have been tracking the nuclear disaster caused by Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011 say that the findings published in the Chinese scientific journal are simply wrong and that the health risks to residents on the West Coast and Hawaii are somewhere between minuscule and non-existent.

“This is a bad disaster,” said Henrieta Dulaiova, an assistant professor in UH’s Department of Geology and Geophysics. “But I don’t like scientists causing panic in the public.”

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71 comments to Report: Study warns Fukushima contamination “is becoming more concentrated as it crosses Pacific Ocean, rather than dispersing” — “It’s making a beeline for U.S. West Coast” — “Scientists causing panic in public”

from the article: "I don't like scientists causing panic in the public"

Well, Ms. Dulaiova, I don't much like businessmen covering up legitimate concerns which scientists and engineers bring to their attention, like General Electric's refusal to listen to its Vice President in charge of reactor quality control, in 1977, a Mr. Dale Bridenbaugh, who warned against the Mark Class of GE designed and built Boiling Water Reactors being shipped with a primary containment shell (Rube Goldberg contraption) which he calculated would not stand up to the "dynamic loads expected to occur from a loss of coolant accident." (LOCA)

Which criticism, if listened to, would have required shut down and retro-fit of the three Fukushitty Death Machines which now threaten life on planet Earth for centuries to come.

The list of scientists, Albert Einstein, Linus Pauling etc. etc. who tried to steer this country and the world clear of the deadly contamination it now faces would stretch well beyond my character limit.

John Gofman, MD, PhD, tried to bring sanity to this profits-crazed business model, was previously an AEC insider, and was hounded out of the industry and had his funding yanked for his anti-nuclear apostasy. It turns out the nuclear Popes (Lewis Strauss, Chet Holifield and everyone on the General Electric Co. board were in fact nuclear devils … insanely intent on contaminating the only planet in our cosmic neighborhood which supports life.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that radioactive waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be Cesium drenched in the bone.

Folks your time for you
Is no longer worth savin'
You better not start Swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a Plutoium stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come enenews writers and critics
Who prophesies reality with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
This ELE catastrophe won't come again
And start speaking soon
For the wheel's still in meltdown spin
And there's tellin' who
That it's TEPCO its namin’.

For the whistle blowers now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.

Come lying senators, Congressmen
Please heed man's call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a NO! Nuclear battle outside
And it is Atomically ragin’.

It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And do criticize
What you can understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond their command
Your contaminated roads are Rapidly degrading.

Please get off enenews.com
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later die fast
As the present now
Will later be ELE past
The order is rapidly fadin’.

And the first one now
Later won't die last
For the ELE times they did a-changin'.

WWJD, that may be as short-sighted as the comment above yours. A lot of the scientific community works at universities, which are outlandishly corrupted by grant money, many of them these days. Like did you know that MIT has "a TEPCO chair"? And have you heard any alarms coming out of MIT? To the contrary.

So please value the quality of the info, not the title in front of someone's name.

Is panic in private better? What about people not being told enough to protect themselves? What about private corporations never considering that the air and the ocean and the soil are public property?

Does it really matter if in the end its going to kill us?Nuclear Radiation was never safe and it was put in the hands of scavangers and mega criminals who are too stupid to realize that in the end it will kill them too.

Your last sentence may say it. Who pays people? But if that's the case, then maybe she went FAR considering that she may be on a leash.

I mean, some of what we need to watch is when people's behavior CHANGES. Like until about a month back, the Japanese were just patent liars about everything. But now they are (well, still lying, but) openly panicked. So if they're the ones who are now this panicked, then it has to be truly terrifying.

What IS the 1% level – compared with what level in which mushroom species, which country (how far away, how long after, what were the atmospheric conditions), which study, and what were the testing protocols, did they differ, and did other studies after Chernobyl done with the same mushrooms, protocols, in same country/different countries vary?
There are other variables too, but you get the idea.
What are the levels compared to say, non-central European mushrooms or Hawaii mushrooms pre-Fuku?
What are the levels of the contaminated mushrooms in Hawaii?
There's science and then there's meaningless downplaying.

Mushrooms what a fascinating organism, did you know they have no nutritional value and also no taste, yet we eat them by the billions, also they have a unusual ability to accumulate radioactive isotopes with little effect on the organism.
I agree a great indicator of contamination levels and could be used to gauge dangerious levels.
I am sure this data is available, if not would not be hard to start our own data base, if we could get some enenewsers to pay for analyis.

We had a KI4U RadTriage badge TRIGGER with 20 mSv last spring 2012 in Hawaii. They were near a beach which had some blue painted tsumani ocean debris. It could be a badge issue, or error in report, but it happened….Just Saying.

It was similar to an identical badge triggering a radiation alarm when taken to the middle of an old atomic bomb test site from the 50s. This badge was correct. Just Saying…

Would suggest, now there is rising media/public concern(FINALLY), to test with GOOD dosimeters(higher than 100 mSv); publish/inform on radiation data from Hawaii, and other areas of the USA. For other countries..they too need to be careful.

HUH..TEPCO, you too should consider getting better dosimeters/wands as the radiation counts are HIGHER than the 100 mSv devices you have used. Reporting dosemeter limit of 100 mSv, when the dose is actually a factor of 1000's higher–whoever made THAT decision should be charged criminally!! To start with….

ABOUT TIME Scientists causing panic in public This better wake people up as to the cover up for the last 2 years. Maybe this will get Hillary and the Canadian Prime minister to finally come out that they covered up everything.

What ails Fukushima Daiichi’s stalled water filtering system Sep 3, 2013
…PROBLEMS:
*ALPS was installed at Fukushima in August-September last year, but did not begin “hot tests” until the end of March.
‘The NRA ordered Tepco to make sure the HICs that would hold radioactive waste can withstand shock. It told the utility to run multiple drop tests with the containers.
“The NRA also said Tepco must make sure any leak of highly radioactive material from the ALPS system or any of its waste containers can be isolated in the facility and would not harm any workers.
“The International Atomic Energy Agency said in April that the system still had not ‘accomplished the expected result of removing some radionuclides’ in tests, and noted Tepco needed to develop long-term storage plans for waste created by treating water.
"On April 4, the system shut down for an hour due to an operator error.
"On June 15, a Tepco worker found a leak at the bottom of one of the tanks in an ALPS line. 'Tepco halted the system again for inspections and found signs of corrosion in the stainless steel tanks.'
“Tepco halted all three lines of the ALPS filtering system on August 8 for further inspections.
"Japan has ordered Tepco to fix the system and begin operating ALPS as early as the middle of this month….”http://www.firstpost.com/world/what-ails-fukushima-daiichis-stalled-water-filtering-system-1081831…

E-COLI to clean radioactive sites? What about what it does to humans. Maybe that is why we are seeing such HEALTH e-coli outbreaks showing up more and more frequently in our food supply? Thats a really bad idea..Neanderthals had more sense…and they are extinct..

Question to the wise, what are the size of radioactive isotopes are they bigger than a water molucle, I am sure they are of different masses and is it possible to capture them in a semi permeable membrane or should we be studying the possibility.
I presume that trillium etc would not be captured?
Never give up.

“…Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Ordinary hydrogen is made up of one proton and one electron. It is the lightest and most common element in the universe, and, of course, one of the two elements in water. When exposed to radiation, as in a nuclear plant, some hydrogen becomes tritium, consisting of one proton, two neutrons, and an electron. This arrangement is unstable and will eventually decay into helium, releasing beta radiation. Beta radiation is essentially high-powered electrons. Tritium has a half life of about 12.3 years, meaning that if you put 1000 atoms of tritium in a jar and wait 12.3 years you will have 500 atoms of tritium. 500 will have decayed. Another 12.3 years and you will have 250. The rule of thumb for radioactive materials is that they need to sit around for 10 to 20 half-lives (120-240 years in the case of tritium) before they are safe.
“I have read that research indicates no safe threshold for tritium. There are a few unpleasant problems with the stuff. Being an isotope of hydrogen, it is part of water molecules themselves. This means it can’t be filtered out of water by any practical means. If it is ingested in water it clears out of the human body in about 10 days, as long as that human body doesn’t drink more tritium-laced water. However, if it is ingested by humans in food it can integrate itself into our tissues and remain for ten years, quietly bombarding us from the inside.

[cont.]
It can lodge in our DNA, damaging the genetic code all around it. Its ability to insinuate itself into our systems has caused researchers at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to assign it an RBE (radiobiological effectiveness) ratio of 1.5 to 5 times that of other radioactive materials. That means that given the same ppl, tritium will cause 2 to 5 times the actual damage of something emitting gamma radiation or x-rays.

It not just Fukushima…Tritium is released during 'venting' at our local nuclear Plant, nine miles away from where we live. I have just obtained a dosimeter, software, and permission to log to an internet site. We will see what it looks like, Anne. Concerned people should get similar hardware and do the same. It does not remove any danger, but keeps people aware.

I read that the nuclear plants in the USA use 80% of the surface water and goes through reactors to cool and is contaminated with trillium and in the future they will have to build new reactors by ocean as trillium levels continue to rise in potable water.
How do you flush the trillium from your body if you continue to drink trillium laced water, you don't.

"Tritium has a half life of about 12.3 years, meaning that if you put 1000 atoms of tritium in a jar and wait 12.3 years you will have 500 atoms of tritium. 500 will have decayed. Another 12.3 years and you will have 250. The rule of thumb for radioactive materials is that they need to sit around for 10 to 20 half-lives (120-240 years in the case of tritium) before they are safe."

I have to add to that with, if the radioactive unstable isotope creates a daughter unstable isotope, by decay, you have to add the sum of each successive daughter half life chains to the end result of that decay chain being safe(?)

Lie, or choose to tell the truth, but time will show that because of greed that in the end there is nothing that can be done to change a collective fate. The lies and fiat payments of the branded-ones were too heavy to overcome.
Now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

Does that speak to her agenda??? One never knows.. I certainly don't know…

I have been and remain some what suspicious of the concentrated 1st wave of radioactive particles thinking on here…

I do think the long term health problems are massive though and it troubles me that the article quote just "scientists" here – """the Chinese scientific journal are simply wrong and that the health risks to residents on the West Coast and Hawaii are somewhere between minuscule and non-existent""" – was this our Dr. Henrieta Dulaiova speaking – not clear??????

I was waiting for Hawaii to report… Let's see if we get anymore to counter this…

Remember, the reported plume is there in Hawaii now…

A poor Huffington article… And also remember, the Huff as a checkered and colored past…

The black substances is 'black rain' or simply fallout. Won't disappear, has to decay away all the while blowing around and getting relocated in nature by wind, rain, water, waves, plant life, animals, etc. Admitting to it would confirm what happened during the explosions at Units 1,3&4.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific
Fukushima water leak risk exaggerated, says Japan watchdog
The chief of Japan's nuclear watchdog chided the operator of the Fukushima plant on Thursday for its inability to explain problems properly, which he said was inflating fears around the world.

Hugo Chavez said something to the effect that we treat the earth as if we had another planet to go to. It is all about greed and the idea that we can live in a world with unlimited energy resources and will go to any length no matter what the consequence to produce it. A world we can endlessly exploit and contaminate. Till we can't anymore.

I agree with Henrieta Dulaiova. I just hate back seat drivers. Man, I would much rather not be warned if an accident is immenent. I hate it when people point out that my blinker is still on, I am about to run the vehicle off a cliff, or into a tree, or something.

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